you can read more about it on cnnmoney.com. >> come up next is "glen campbell, i'll be me." i'm poppy harlow and we will see you back here tomorrow evening. on behalf of eli lilly and company, welcome to the special presentation of "glen campbell i'll be me." for nearly 140 years, lilly has been dedicated to making life better through our medicine. and for the last quarter century, we have been working to discover treatments for alzheimer's disease. we are making progress, but a breakthrough can't come soon enough. tonight, we're proud to partner with cnn to bring you this powerful film.

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♪ >> who is that? >> it's you, honey. >> that's me there? >> that was you. >> that is me. i don't know which one i'm holding. >> debbie, your oldest daughter. >> is that debbie? debbie. ♪ i forgot. well, who is he? >> come on, you know who that is. it's you, honey. >> oh. it's a movie about you. >> no kidding. i'll be me. ♪ >> who is that? >> that's billie. >> oh, it's my daughter. >> no, that's your second wife. >> billie.

>> you were married for 15 years. you had kelly, travis and cane. >> oh, really? >> who is that? >> that's your third wife, sara and then you met me. >> she's a good looking girl. she still is. >> how many does this make now? >> that is six boys. now i have six boys, two girls. >> yeah. replenish the earth it says. you know? >> yeah, but not one person. >> mrs. campbell, how does it feel to be the mother of one of the finest recording stars in the country? >> well, we are proud of him and everything. but i'm still the same out carrie, still the same old thing. >> what kind of boy was glen, mr. campbell? >> he was just a good old country boy.

♪ >> thank you so much. i guess i have a lot of people to thank for this, too. mainly folks in the cma and tommy smothers for giving me a chance to do a good country summer show. ♪ >> he really brought country into the mainstream. >> the record he got out is i guess one of the biggest records he's ever had. "rhinestone cowboy." somebody told me it's on the way to sell 2 million copies of one record. >> that's the first number one record. >> ladies and gentlemen, i'm glen campbell. ♪

♪ >> in 1968, the entertainer of the year was glen campbell. ♪ >> are you a beach boy? can you sit in for brian wilson? ♪ >> i know i haven't changed i don't think. like when you go back home, the people treat you so differently. >> he grew up dirt poor in arkansas, learned music on a sears & roebuck guitar and became one of the biggest recording stars of all time. a much sought after studio

musician he recorded with frank sinatra, elvis to the beach boys. ♪ >> if "true grit" is as successful as everyone says he's going to be, we may have something going. ♪ >> the rhinestone cowboy himself, mr. glen campbell. [ imitating donald duck ]. >> people say, is there no end to this man's habits? >> there is no beginning. >> you know what the date is

today? the month, day and year. what month do you think this is? >> h i -- what is it? i don't know. let's go look. >> what time of the year? are we in winter, spring, summer or fall? >> i don't worry about those things. >> don't worry about that. >> don't worry about them. >> all right. do you know the year. >> 1870, something like that. >> no, no, no. >> i don't pay attention to those things. but when it is needed i take care of that. >> how old are you now? >> i don't know, how old am i? ♪ >> i was born in 1936, 1949. >> 76. >> so you are 76 now. >> i know it. yeah, i'm 76. >> do you know where you are right now? what's the name of this place? >> i don't know. >> what kind of a place is this? where have you come? >> obviously, i'm being analyzed for something.

>> okay. so what kind of -- what is this? is there a hospital, medical facility? >> that's what it is, okay, right. >> who was the first president of the united states? can you go back to your school years? who was the first president? >> my goodness. i don't know. i don't use that very much lately. >> i'd like you to try to remember four words. okay. i'm going to give you four words. you try to remember them now. >> if, and but are my big ones. >> those are later. those are later. try to remember these four words, okay? >> okay. >> apple. >> mr. johnson. >> mr. johnson. >> charity. >> charity. >> and tunnel. >> tunnel. >> can you give those back to me now. >> no. i have no use for it now. >> okay. >> i already passed it. >> they're gone already. okay. >> i can play guitar.

>> you know how to do that. >> i have done it a few times. >> i imagine so. i never -- >> you didn't flyinch, so that s good. >> two injections. >> two injections. >> same stuff. >> nope. it's actually different material. it will get taken up differently in the brain. >> oh. but my brain is so smart. i was so bright my daddy called me son. gullible for silly things. >> silly things? >> did they stick that in me? >> yeah, you have a needle in there but there's no tube to it yet. >> all right. now i'm going to have you rest quietly in here and in about 30 minutes i will come and get you then we will go for pictures. >> does that me you are knocking me out? >> no. i want you to rest quietly in here. i'm going to turn the lights out.

♪ i remember too distant battle ♪ ♪ and stars that fell out of the blue ♪ >> like the rain. >> huh? oh, the rain. >> stars fell like the rain. ♪ and the rain out of the blue when my life is through ♪ ♪ and the angels -- ♪ i remember -- >> what are you singing? ♪ and the angels ask me who is calling i remember, too you're the one who said -- i believe ♪ ♪ in you

>> okay. we'll be right in. >> this is your brain. >> wow. >> it's like you are looking straight at the camera. we are looking front on at the brain. this particular shot we're looking at this region of the brain. >> oh. >> because that's the part of the brain, among others, that's involved with memory. >> that butterfly in there on purpose? >> the butterfly is sort of water space in the brain. it is like where ventricles, where the spinal fluid is, okay. so right in here is the structure called the hippocampus. that is vital for memory. unfortunately, in alzheimer's disease, it starts to shrink. we can see here on this m.r. scan that yours is smaller than it used to be. it used to occupy this whole space, but now it's considerably smaller. this is what we call atrophied. if we look at the bottom pictures here. the ones with the blue background, if the brain pattern was normal, it would be solid dark blue, like this color in

here. so things in that part of the brain are not working quite normally. >> hmm. >> this indicates in all likelihood your difficulties are due to alzheimer's disease. >> hmm. >> this is -- we are able to do that now. this is a fairly sophisticated new test now that tells us that is the likely underlying cause. >> i figured that was just getting the ones out that i don't really want or need. >> trying to forget things you don't need anymore. trying to clear out the mind a bit. >> yeah. >> well, i do. i forget them. >> i knew it was alzheimer's, but it's more solidly in my mind now that i have to accept it. it's really hard. but i just -- you know, i just have to maintain as long as i can and try to keep him healthy

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>> when i first heard the word dementia, the reaction was first sympathy, empathy, but also as a businessman, wow, what's this going to mean? what about the tour? is that going to be viable? and we need to deal with this properly. >> and we first got the information and it was our piece to promote it with the the record company and with julian. >> suffering with the disease that he had f he didn't have the kind of perfect pitch that he has, and if he is like half of

the musician that he is,i don't think that, i don't know how he would pull this off. >> wait a minute. >> and the new songs might be a little by of a challenge, because they are new, and it is a little harder for him to learn the new songs, but we are drilling them in his head everyday and he is practicing with the lyrics. >> that is one of the biggest problem, because glen is unrehearsable. any rehearsal is more like a sound check. he can't get through it without stopping someone and telling them that they are not playing their instrument or that they are too loud. >> on the clock, 45 minutes. be careful with the coffee, because i know how hot it is. >> and glen's first television

performance since the release of the new record and since the diagnosis of alzheimer's. >> you can see that circle? it is important not the go outside of the circle. >> the camera. >> okay. >> i will stand where i want to and stand where i want to. and you got it. >> what is your biggest fear about this show today? >> i can't do it. >> so what about the tour? >> it would be hard to continue to do, to do things. >> my next guest is an american icon and he has won five grammy

awards and three emmy awards and recently he has gone public with the fact that he has been diagnosed with alzheimer's and written the final record and performing with three of his kids called "ghost on the campus." ♪ i have tried and i have failed lord ♪ ♪ i have won and i have lost ♪ i have loved and i have not lord ♪ ♪ sometimes it is a cross ♪ but one thing that i know ♪ this old world has been good to me ♪ ♪ a bitter place

♪ wait and you'll see ♪ some days i'm in confusion ♪ my past gets in my way ♪ ♪ i need the ones i love lord ♪ ♪ more and more each day ♪ but you know what ♪ one thing i nknow ♪ ♪ this old world has been good to me ♪ ♪ a bitter place ♪ you'll soon see ♪ ooh

♪ a better place [ applause ] >> i got through it! >> glen campbell! hey, buddy, good job. >> that was wonderful. >> you are one of those guys that just impacted a lot of people, "gentle on my mind" and all that, and it is like the great american songbook and you are part of it. thank you, my friend. >> thank you. >> and you are always welcome, and any time you want to come, we are always here. thank you, my friend. >> thank you. >> and the family, and if that daughter wants to come back without you, it is fine. [ laughter ] >> i have to put them to work. >> well, thank you very much.

>> well, there is some in there. hey, hey, hey. >> when you do a major city like new york or l.a., then there are always really important show, because the critics come, and you want to put your best foot forward. >> maybe many -- maybe in the current state of haziness or something that he has done for so long for such joy, he becomes himself again. >> it is so much fun and the most incredible setup i have been in with my kids and my wife and playing with the kids in the band. it is just really is fun.

>> it's not all bad necessarily. it's kind of like we get to celebrate his life while he's still around. you know, we don't have to -- some people we don't get to see the full picture of what their life has been until they are gone. with this illness, we know that the end is kind of near, at least for his career and kind of celebrate it and enjoy it with him still with us. it's actually kind of nice. >> i think that the decision to book the tour is very courageous, because in there is inherently the risk that he could kind of undermine people's respect for him or the appreciation. >> the bass is just too late. >> we will turn it down. >> yeah, there is a big musical challenge in this kind of show that most musicians don't have to deal with, which is anything can happen. all bets off.

but that is kind of exciting. ♪ i have tried and i have failed lord ♪ ♪ i have won and i have lost ♪ i've lived and i have loved lord ♪ ♪ sometimes at such a cost ♪ one thing i nknow ♪ ♪ the world has been good to me ♪ ♪ a better place ♪ oh wait you'll see ♪ ooh ooh ooh ♪ a better place

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opportunity to get out and to be able to see you nknow a living legend. >> glen would say god has a purpose in everything. there is a purpose in everything. and that is what he would say. if he knew the full ramifications of what was going on. >> i still cling to the fact that music does something to the molecules. i think that music is one of the only things that really collectively can change the molecules in all of us, and gosh, what an immense blessing to have that impact on people. ♪

♪ god bless you. thanks. whoa! thank you. whew! thank you very much. god bless. i really appreciate it. ♪ well just knowing your door is always open and your path is free to walk ♪ ♪ that makes me -- you got that here. what is that -- you have to have one of those things on me because i forgot everything i learned. [ laughter ]

i thought that we had to sing, because i forgot where a-flat was, man. got one? >> our teleprompter went out right at the top of the show, seriously. >> what? >> our teleprompter went out. >> oh, i was wondering where that was. has anybody here got everything -- what do you call it? >> hold on. hold on. >> what? >> we're going to pull it up. okay. hello. oh, there we go! yeah! ♪ just knowing that your door is always open and your path is free to walk ♪ ♪ that makes me kin to leave my sleeping bag rolled up and stashed behind your couch ♪ >> try a little kindness. that thing has this long guitar solo in it. he is reading the teleprompter because he is pretty much

reading the teleprompter for every song. he is singing and he said, glen, play a long guitar solo here. okay. i'll play one then. ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ ♪ well, you've got to try a little kindness show a little kindness ♪ ♪ track your lot for everyone to see ♪ ♪ and if you try a little kindness then you overlook the blindness of narrow minded people on their narrow minded streets ♪ play for' em. ♪ all the narrow minded people on their narrow minded streets ♪ >> i don't know if the world knows what a great guitar player glen campbell is. they should. if you go back and watch his tv shows and listen to those records and, you know, a lot of those records he played on the liner notes didn't say glen

campbell played on those beach boys records. but he did. >> so many blessings tied up in this, and when you think about the gift of glen and the gift he is receiving and how he is touching so is many people's lives and how many people are going through this and he is opening up such a great conversatio conversation. >> and glen is no more important than anybody else, but he is one of the most wonderful gifts that god put in somebody, and at the end of the day, this has not taken that the gift away from him. >> and i walk into the kitchen, to get something, right? i go and i say, what did i come in here for? i stopped it. i quit going into the kitchen. >> it is amazing to see him be vuler inable, and our culture does not encourage us to do that much. i don't know if i would make the decision to be that vulnerable.

>> and you want to e introduce these people? who are these people up here? oh, there they are. >> okay. this is my -- >> over there. >> and my kids and friends, and whoever else is here. [ laughter ] >> hi. >> my darling -- introduce me, dad. >> i have. i got it right here [ laughter ] i had to the write it down. >> you are funny. >> my darling daughter, ashley campbell, and she plays the banjo and sings and guitars. >> you want the introduce everybody now? >> we are going to do that later. let's introduce the band later. how about we do a little bit. yeah. >> what do you want to do?

>> ready? >> of course, i was born ready. [ "dueling banjos" ] ♪ >> that wasn't exactly the glenn campbell that we had known, but he still was. okay. so he wanted to sing wichita lineman twice, and who gives a rat's ass. and he walked out there and played his ass off, and the crowd loved it. ♪ >> i sat there and i laughed and

i cried and i learned. he is still glen campbell. ♪ ♪

♪ [ applause ] >> the audience being there somehow triggers her ability to access that other part of his brain, which is incredible. >> i watched the family there on stage together and i watched them performing. i know it is coming down road, but i just think about him. i think about her everyday, kim. and what changes she is going to be seeing in the man that is so strong and happy and big, and he is worth so much to us. i know that he is going to kind of shrink, and it is heartbreaking. there's more than one route to the top. the 2016 lexus ls and the new lx.

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♪ i got a feeling called the blues ♪ >> there you go, g. ♪ i got a feeling called the blues ♪ ♪ oh lord since my baby said good-bye ♪ >> traveling on the bus with the entire crew and the band and everybody, and than god we all like each other. >> it makes us feel like family, and we share holidays when we are out and whatever, so it is a family vibe. they have accepted us, jill, myself, my son aaron, and he and

aaron get along really well. a lot of people think that aaron is his grandson and just a part of the road fans. >> we have a strong relations p relationship. it is is like we have been so long together that he barely even forgets me. the nickname that he calls me now is whistle britchers. that is the only name that he remembers. ♪ nothing but the whole wide world to gain ♪ ♪ nothing nothing ♪ nothing but the wide world to gain ♪ ♪ nothing nothing ♪ got nothing but the whole wide whole wide world to gain ♪ ♪ now i'm here on the blacktop ♪ sun in my eyes ♪ women and country on my mind

♪ both turn me out over to the the borderline ♪ ♪ there are no more loves lost ♪ no more gains ♪ no more digging holes of graves ♪ ♪ and nothing the lose but rivets and chains ♪ ♪ i got nothing but the whole wide world to gain ♪ >> we did a show last night, and i'd like to have a diagram that shows where where you were every second. >> little too much. >> over there? >> that is what betsy ross said when she finished a flag -- is this too busy? ♪ no rich man's worth is worth the weight ♪ ♪ and doing it the same >> okay. that is there. and now we go over.

well, how did you get yours in there so quickly? >> because i am faster than you? well, j well, you have a different kind of shoe, i think. >> every little thing the affects glen in a big way. with his teeth, he had something on the tooth, and so he asked for knives, and anybody got a knife or a razor blade? he wants to stick things in his mouth. my yankee is in his mouth as we speak. he obsesses over every little thing. >> i don't know who got that started. >> what, that you had alzheimer's? >> it is a rumor. >> it is a rumor. [ laughter ] >> he is always up. he is always up, even through the challenges and all that, he jokes around constantly and he has more joke than anybody i have ever met, and we crack each

other up all of the time and just have a wonderful time the all of the time. >> i have laughed and i have cried. laughing is a lot better. >> flex your muscles for me, honey. w woo, woo, that is not a 75-year-old body. ooh, don't turn sideways. >> people were going to the show, because they thought it was a stock car race, they thought it was a crash, but they were expecting something, and maybe i should have more respect for my fellow human beings. but it turns out that the people really seem to want to be there to see something that they may not be able to see again.

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look over there. >> in the course of the touring we would have a few weeks here or few days there where we could come back to malibu and try to enjoy a normal life. >> and play the piano for me. open and close. >> i'm a guitar player. >> i can see. open and close the hands. >> but we are still dealing with the little things everyday that are so difficult for glen. where is the bathroom in your own home, and every second is a challenge for him. >> i thought that we would start out asking how you feel and how you think that you are doing? >> i thank the lord for giving me a good, what do you call it? >> pretty good health? >> yeah, you know, ain't nothing wrong with me. i can still jump as high, but can't stay up as long e though. >> his coordination seems pretty good. is he doing buttons or shaving

and those sorts of things? >> yes. >> and what about the bathroom habit, is that under control more or less? >> yes, and as a matter of fact, there were more problems with that a year ago. >> i remember, so that resolved? >> yes, it resolved, stopped. you were -- >> what? >> you were, i think getting disoriented in the middle of the night. >> when? >> about a year ago in our bedroom, you would get up in the middle of the night, and pe neshgs the corner or go to the hotel room and -- >> that is when i was drinking. >> and there would be a trash can next to the toilet and you would pee in the trashcan than the toilet. >> ho e e nooshgs i sleep wal-- sleepwa sleepwalk. that is what you call it. and if i tripped over it, i would say, oh, my gosh. >> when is the last time that glen performed before an

audience? >> yesterday. when was it? >> i think that it was saturday night. >> where was i? >> you are going to be seeing me next. okay. we were in pennsylvania, and in morrisburg, no, wait. sh shippensburg, pennsylvania. >> yes. >> and generally, he is doing well and enjoying -- >> yes, very well. he is really enjoying it, and having a good time the on stage. >> so there has been some decline, you know, the way that glen presents himself excellent, bright, alert, and interacts well and communicates well, a a nd where i am surprised is how preserved glen is, and how able he is to perform, and how able he is to communicate and to interact. i think that he is doing much

better than most people. you are maintaining your intellectual activity, because you are doing the stuff that you love to do and you are performing. >> that is true. >> i feel very confident that it is a large are reason that you are doing as well as you are doing. because your memory did decline somewhat since the last time i saw you, that is the reason that we are going to maybe dose the medication at this point to see if it helps. there is some data to suggest that he might get a cognitive boost from the stronger dose. >> okay. it might help the memory a little bit and thinking, and make you sharper. >> oh, i have been trying to get rid of it for the last 40 years. >> well, you are doing a good job. there are parts of glen's life that he would like to forget, and that is why he had an alcohol problem when i first met him. i think that he was forgetting the -- he was drinking to the

forget the pain of the divorces and that he felt bad that he couldn't be there for the children to be a father to thth. them. >> if you get a diagnosis like alzheimer's now a a days unlike you used to hear it, old grandpa is getting forgetful. it is part of life, and go with it, and have fun with it. laugh at yourself [ laughter ] ♪ see how she flies ♪ golden sails across the sky

♪ close enough to touch ♪ but careful if you try ♪ those little hmm ♪ the moon and the heart's mistress ♪ ♪ the moon can be so cold ♪ once the sun did shine ♪ oh, lord, it felt so fine ♪ little the pine ♪ and the darkness fell --

i can do it. ♪ and the harsh neness -- [ laughter ] ♪ and roll her eyes ♪ ♪ i fell out of my heart ♪ i fell down on my face ♪ i tripped and missed my start ♪ ? he has left his mark in the music industry time and time again and he is continuing the do it now the again in the ladder part of his life, and i find that to be so inspiring. ♪ it is hard to call your home ♪ >> musicians like glen, what

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you know, what is life? life is a journey of spiritual growth and accumulated moments and experiences, but sut memories. that is what life is, it is memories. that is all i have of my whole life is memories. ♪ by the time i get to phoenix ♪ she'll be rising >> by the time i get to phoenix, and galveston and wichita linemen and all of the songs of

his that i loved, that glen's voice, an glen's voice, it got to me. there is a real, it is a very loneso somsome tonality to his and i wish i could sing like that. ♪ i am a lineman for the county ♪ ♪ and i drive the main roads >> i mean i grew up singing them. i mean, you covered them e growing up where i lived. ♪ i hear you is singing in the wires ♪ >> we kind of fight for respect a little bit, and here is a guy that could stand toe-to-toe with anybody playing on records.

>> there are so many sides of glen that people either don't know or they have forgotten and some people know him as the rhinestone cowboy guy or whatever song they attached to glen. then you go back to the early part of the career and you will find this incredible session played, and then you will find a guy hosting one of the most popular tv shows at the time. i mean, it goes on and on and on, and it is extraordinarily talented diverse human being. >> from television city in hollywood, ladies and gentlemen, glen campbell. >> well sh, i was a young writen the glen campbell good time hour. we all just immediately admired his talent. ♪

he just went along with it. he was completely game and completely fun, and he had kind of a down home sense of humor. ♪ ♪ my home is on my land ♪ i know every inch of highway ♪ every inch of back road >> it was a treat for us young writers to be introduced to talent at that level at such a young age. >> i haven't figured out -- what is that? i can't remember what it is. >> the lifetime achievement award. >> lifetime -- >> right. >> so lifetime. >> yeah. >> well, i ain't done yet. >> yeah. >> tell them that. >> glen campbell is such an important part of our familiment

my dad was working for an independent book and record promoter back in the day. through the years, they became very good friends, and around 1967 or 1968, my dad went independent, and glen said, hey, we want to put you on the retainer. if we have a hit, we will be with you forever. and there were times that the only check that month would be from glen campbell, and that is always going to mean the world to me. ♪ >> each venue and audience and television cameras and the band twice as big, and it might be offputting. ♪ ♪ southern nights >> what a cool entertainer, man.

just everything that i am trying to be with music and now somehow television and stuff, glen c campbell was the inventor of that for country music in my eyes. >> it is a big deal to come to sing this for him? >> big deal. it is a big deal to sing it for him, and it is a way bigger deal for me to sing it with him. i think that when my career is off, aun wf othe -- one of thes days, it is going to be one of the moments that i look back at and point at one of the high points. >> beautiful singing and the pure tone and the simple presentation. nothing fancy. it was not singing all over the place. it was simple on the surface, but it was a world of emotion underneath. >> and i always felt like he was just the major leagues' five-tool player. he could act, good looking, and he could play guitar and sing

and write a song, and you kind of hated him a little bit for that. >> glen, how are you feeling tonight? >> wonderful. am i playing tonight? >> glen campbell has been making music history for decades, and he is still is. he took country music to new heights and became a global super star and not just on radio, but movies an tv, too. last year glen announced that he was facing alzheimer's, and this he would capture his career with one more album and tour. >> the teleprompter is way out in the middle of the room. >> where where? >> when you sing tonight, it is way out in the middle of the room. >> oh, really? >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the great glen campbell, everybody. ♪ >> okay. ♪ i've been walking these

streets so long ♪ ♪ singing some good old song ♪ i know every crack in these dirty sidewalks of broadway ♪ ♪ thank you ♪ you know where hustle the name of the game ♪ ♪ and the running over by the broken rain ♪ ♪ there's been a load of compromising ♪ ♪ on the road to my horizon ♪ but i'm going to be where the lights are shine on me ♪ ♪ like a rhinestone cowboy >> i got a choir back there and up here. ♪ getting cards and letters from

people i don't even know ♪ ♪ and offers coming over the phone ♪ ♪ like a rhinestone cowboy ♪ and cowgirl [ applause ] >> thank y'all. thank y'all so much. do i go somewhere or shut up? >> i was rocking to "rhinestone cowboy." >> i had to come to tell you that i loved you. that is all. >> well, god bless you, man. i really appreciate it.

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and i'm so thankful that i have so -- you know, such a great support system with our friends, daunte, the golf angel. >> yesterday, we went to the doctor and the dentist and he probably asked me 40 or 50 times where we're going. and i tell him, and probably 20 or 30 seconds late er, he asks me again. >> here is your coffee. >> hey, baby, here's your coffee. >> my coffee. >> he likes to drink out of a big cup. >> good morning, glen campbell. >> you see that? >> yeah, grammy. >> i know. >> how ya feeling today, glen? >> fine. >> there are a couple of times i would have to help him with the club, and now he just stares at the clubs and i have to pick a club out for him. but the good thing is that, you know, he doesn't care too much.

he will get mad for a second if he has a bad shot, and then he is going to forget what he hit, and most of the time we say it is a good shot. >> hey, how about that? >> good shot, glen. >> short? there it is. >> and unfortunately alzheimer's attacks all parts of the brain, and we would expect musical skills together with other intellectual skills to decline during the course of alzheimer's disease. ultimately what happens is that the patients no long ver the cognitive capacity to understand what is being spoken to them. as things get worse, they start to forget the names of family members. they become confused about family and social relationships. as things really deteriorate, language function can be

profoundly impaired and patients have difficulty expressing themselves, and on occasion, patients will develop hallucination hallucinations and delusion, and unfortunately glen is entering a stage where his cognition is getting worse. how is it possible that he could be so able in his musical skills? >> in glen's case, he still has such a developed musical area in the brain that he can pull it off and entertain the public. >> somehow that musical skill, that musical talent, if it is activated can have a spreading effect and help their function globally in terms of their intellect. >> the singing is a lot better than golfing. [ laughter ] >> i want some shorts out of

this the. >> it is outdoor furniture fabric. >> well, it can be good campbell fabric here. >> and you want a couple of eggs and toast? >> yeah. >> isn't that cool? >> yeah, that is cool, honey. >> is that too busy? >> all right. you want some shorts out of that, huh? >> yeah, i would like to have some shorts. >> well, i might be tempted to sit on you in the patio. >>notenote. >> he said that he would double his dosage and he said it would give him a boost, and it did in a different area, because it was like viagra four times a day, and he would not leave me alone, and so i called dr. cohen and we went to the original dose. but we have been experimenting to deal with that labido, too. i don't know what is go og nn

that brain, but depending upon how you look at it, there is an upside to alzheimer's. >> with alzheimer's, i think that is one of the worst things that people that have that, you know. and i think that if we can, you know, if we can actually do, get it out what is wrong with that stuff, it is like it is just -- it would be what an inkrcredibl blessing that would be if we could get people to understand that and help the people who are, and who do have alzheimer's. i think it is just one of the greatest things in the world if it could happen. >> that came from your heart. is that what you are saying talking about it? >> yeah. >> you ever get the blues? >> yeah, i do.

>> we are going to the first floor. >> yes. the number will rise from the current number 36 million globally to 1150 million alzheimer's patients around the globe. >> you are doing more for alzheimer's disease and so inspiring. >> last year we spent $140 billion on alzheimer's patients. and by the time all of the baby boomers are retired it is 15 or $16 million which is raising up the total cost to $6 # 00 billion which is the same as the defense budget this year. >> the more the public is aware and it is a decision that we have to make, the better off and the more healthier america is o going to be especially in terms of alzheimer's. we could not be better served than glen campbell, and getting up on the stage and singing, that must be fun, right? coming to the congressional

offices, that is really generous [ laughter ] >> glen, do you know where you are playing tonight? >> tell her where tonight. >> the library of congress. >> that is right. ♪ >> you know, by the time i became governor in the late '70s, he was already a major figure in american music, ap i knew that he was from the area close to where i grew up. he has brought a clarity to this issue. we don't spend nearly enough money on alzheimer's research. we don't really have any way of slowing the progression of the disease. it is going to be a massive problem, and we just need to get a big majority of the congress on board with the idea that the federal research dollars are

essential in the biomedical areas. they are. you can't possibly get anything approaching the level investment that you need on a problem this big just by having the private companies trying to come up with some new drug that will slow the m march of alzheimer's or reverse it. this tour of his is saying, here i am, and here is what is happening to me, and i'm going out with a smile on my face and a song in my heart and i am sharing it with you so that you will know, you will know. and that may be more of his enduring legacy than all of the other music that he made. [ applause ] you can even choose a car for them.

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. an emotional moment today in washington when ashley campbell talked about the way alzheimer's is affecting her father the. >> you think that a person's life is comprised of memories, and that is what this disease takes away from you, and like the memory of my dad taking me fishing in flagstaff or the e memory of my dad playing guitar with me when i play banjo. and now when i play banjo, it is getting harder for him to follow

along. and it is getting harder for him to recall my name. it is hard to come to the realization that some day my dad might look at me and i will be absolutely nothing to him. ♪ >> what are you doing? hey. ♪ ♪ four years old when i went up the stairs to your bed ♪ ♪ i love you ♪ i pulled the covers up over my head ♪ ♪ and he said it is just a storm ♪ ♪ enjoy the show ♪ he'd take me to the window ♪ and he'd show me that it is

beautiful ♪ ♪ never had to can you to sing for me ♪ ♪ it is just the way you put me at ease ♪ ♪ bone for bone we are the same ♪ ♪ bones get tired and they can't carry all the weight ♪ ♪ we can talk until you can't even remember my name ♪ ♪ daddy don't you worry ♪ i'll do the remembering ♪ daddy don't you worry ♪ i'll be doing the remembering ♪ >> look, here is daddy and say, okey-dokey, papa. >> are you asking me? ♪

>> you are supposed to be saying that. >> do you know who is the second of the children? >> cal, shannon and -- >> what? >> cal, shannon and our daughter ashley. ashley. ♪ >> you know, most of the time, hey, son, you ever call everybody son. >> who is this? your dad? >> i gave it up for a long time he called everybody son. >> your dad, your grandpa? >> no, around nashville. hey, hoss. blew my mind. and we went to whatever with him

a and. >> i think that i cried the first week. it got me. it still does. so this is a man, my hero, and had the mind like a steel trap and to see him to the point where where he can't remember my name, and that got me. >> my father-in-law passed away are from alzheimer's, so we were like this, and so i have seen it in every, every stage from that first day when suddenly somebody look looks at a at something and goes, you know, what is this? and it is a lock, and they don't, you know, and then to where it snows overnight, and how did that get here? what is that? you know. >> your father passed away when he was 70. >> yes. >> he was young. just 70 years old. the part of the brain that was affected at first was, you know,

this is the white cup, but he couldn't say it is a white cup. he would say maybe it is a black cup or it is a, he couldn't get it out, and it really frustrated him. >> my mom didn't -- it didn't happen that way with her. but we did watch her go backwards through her life. one night it was time to go to bed and my dad was in the king-sized bed on one side and she was like, oh, no, there is a man in there and my parents, they would never go for this. are you kidding me? i am not going in there. >> and i had a grandmother who doesn't know me.home now, and - and her mother died in a nursing home, and ditn't know her. >> it affects people differently, and it is not like one, oh, that is what it is. when it comes to the brain, different parts of the brain,

the memory loss, and it is motor skills. >> at first, it would make me angry, because he would not listen to me, no, that is not polite. don't lick your plate and here, take a piece of bread and he would fight me for it. >> and that is good, boy. wow! >> i would get angry and i would go eat in the pantry on a little stool by myself because i refused to look at him that way. >> and my mom could not have a conversation even though she still knew me. >> and so i would sit there with my feet in her lap, and i would just pray, pray for grace. >> and that is part of my defense mechanism, because i don't want to see him being an invalid. i don't want to see him degenerating. you know. i don't want to see glen in that condition.

you know. i think -- i think it is better to die from something else. >> my mother is young enough in her 60s now, and she is young enough na we don't have any signs off that yet, thank god, but it is a very good chance, and then i'm probably next. and so it is like, let's figure this out, can ya? i'm 4 #1. can somebody find that gene before i am 70 and turn it off. now get 15 gigs for the price of 10.

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we were raised in a very religious household. my parents are both strong believers. every time i would go out of the house he'd say something along the lines, you be good and honor the lord. >> i know that god is with us, and he allows things to happen and we don't understand his way s ways. god has given me the strength to face each day, and i am trusting him for the rest of the journey and while the bible says that a merry heart works like a good medicine, and bitterness is like drys on t s on thness on the bo. so it is just difficult to keep

a merry heart and fight alzheimer's and you can fight anything that you are up against with a good sense of humor. >> what? >> i have to get you in and out of the shower. >> what? >> you have a show to do. >> in and out of the shower. >> i have done this. >> nope. nope, nope. >> and it is really hard to get him to take a shower. because he is always cold. i say he is like king david. king david in the bible in the older years, he just could not stay warm, so they got him a young virgin to sleep with him, but that is is not happening, s so. >> look at that! >> what? did you buy something? >> can you get to it?

>> yeah. if everybody will leave me alone. >> but i will. [ laughter ] >> and one. >> hey, you leave me one. >> here. >> what you need to do is to go to the dentist down the street and have him fix it. >> no! and i ain't going to do it either. i don't want to go there >> and those things are frustrating for me, because i try to help him, but there are things in his mind that i am not doing right. and he can't do it, and then he is frustrated and then he is angry. >> i am telling you, man. >> you just had a knife in your mouth on the bus a few minutes ago. >> i did not! ? yes, you did! >> i don't know nothing. if i were a dog, i would have had it done by now. i want to pull it out, and it is driving me nuts. >> okay.

you, you don't understand. you can't see it, can you? well, i don't know what it is. >> he went upstairs and my mom went upstairs with him, and he would not let it go. and then all of the sudden, he just dropped it. then he came back downstair the as couple of minutes later, and he goes, well, when did you get here? hi, honey, how are you? and he hugged me and lovey-dovey and he said, boy, i'm tired. i am going to go to bed. man, it is like forgiveness without reconciliation. >> so what are their names? >> my son, you -- >> what is my name? >> my wife. you are my darling. >> this is not a fun illness. it is a really challenging illness for people to deal with

on every moment of their life. he can't find the bathroom in his own house. and the other night, he came to bed in the middle of the night, and the light was shining on the white bed and he sat down on the floor beneath, and he would not walk over, there because he said that there is a hole. i said, no, no, it is a floor, an trust me, you can walk over here, and just keep coming, you know. ev everyday is a challenge for me. i fight depression and it is just, you know, really intensely sad to see somebody that you love struggle. generally, he clings to me like i'm his anchor for who am i? where am i? and you know, i'm his safety blanket that he wants me to be around all of the time.

>> okay. sweetheart, i promise that we will find them all and get them back on the bed where you left th them. >> what? >> right next to the bed. >> now, if you go on all tof th web sites for alzheimer's, this is very typical. they are paranoid and think that people are stealing from them. >> and he has had them, and i got two -- >> that is a scary day with the golf clubs. he had become very agitated and accusing dante of stealing his clubs. >> where is he? >> it makes me hurt for him to see him so frustrated. and just to see what is happening to him. >> i love you presh. >> i love you, honey. >> i know you do, but i sure love you. man, you are sure being nice to

me. i am really like a -- head the past week. >> and we wanted to end on a high note and protect what he wanted. >> napa is the last calendar date of the tour. so, we don't know. this could be it. >> it could be it. >> with all of the shows that he has played. he has played thousands and thousands of shows, and i thought, man, it is so sad that he doesn't know that this is his last show. >> and before it is does he want to do it, and now it is reaching to point to where he is unable to do it. he is not capable of doing it. >> and he has to have a jacket to match the hat.

the camouflage one. >> and it is awesome. >> i like the way his memories are and it is dimming and the whole thing is coming to an end, and it is no going to be like fireworks and everything else. it is not like the banner is going to be coming down, but the light is starting to get smaller and smaller with us being on tour. it is apropos. le steps can be an effective... and enjoyable approach... compared to the alternatives. push! i am pushing! sfx: pants ripping how you doing eddie? almost there. small steps. at axa, we'll help you take the next steps, with more confidence. for advice, retirement and insurance, talk to axa today.

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>> thank you, napa, california. i appreciate it. ♪ >> i'm glen campbell, and i'm --

god bless you. of course, as long as i have been around, i'm happy to be anywhere. but to come here and play this, oh, it makes my hair itch. it really does. you know when your hair is raising up, and you ever have that happen, and it just, a ha! ♪ it is knowing that your door is always open ♪ ♪ and your path is free to walk ♪ ♪ that makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag rolled up and stashed behind your couch ♪ ♪ yeah and just knowing that the world is -- hey, who is running this thing? ♪ ♪ and find, okay.

♪ ♪ that you are moving on the back roads like the windows of my memories just sitting gentle on my mind ♪ ♪ ♪ that was a difficult day. it was a difficult leading up to the show. it was really stressful and difficult. that night was really, really hard, you know, and we just knew, we knew that this is it. we were going home for the christmas break, and that we were not going to be adding more shows after that. >> the entire time the audience was completely with him. even though, like, from my point of view, half of it was a train wreck, you know. but once again, i just, i let

go. it is out of your control, you know. ♪ it feels so good ♪ friends, life feels so good ♪ and in my yeah ♪ and stop the world from fighting ♪ ♪ la da dee dah ♪ la dee da da ♪ have you ever felt a southern night ♪ ♪ in the southern night ♪ and the southern skies ♪ lordy i just love them southern nights ♪ ♪ thand california ♪

♪ oh whoa kwae yeah ♪ woo thank you so much. you are just awesome. >> i know that there are maybe people who don't understand why we have gone out on tour, and why we've opened ourselves up, and exposed this the illness so publicly, why we have allowed a loved one to go on stage and take a risk of, you know, he could make a fool out of himself on stage, but it is something that he wanted to do, the and it is something that we think is healthy for him, and it is worth the risk, because he has done a great job. he is still glen campbell and trying to live his life as long as he can to the fullest. we haven't let it go to the

point where he is going to embarrass himself or anyone, and the fans have been so support e supportive. we have been listening to them, too. they have, they want him out there and they want to hear his music, and they don't care if he messes up. you know, they love him. and he loves them. so we have tried to do it as long as we can. >> it has happened enough times where at least everyone felt good about the decision to end the tour officially. >> the fact that you can still have the moments with him, you know, you can't beat that. and just cherish every moment. >> i will never forget it. it was the best time of my life. . we didn't really have anything, you know. but, we made do. vo: know you can craft an investment plan as strong as your values. al, how you doing. hey, mr. hamilton.

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♪ love you till the end >> top again? >> it's gotten to the point where he doesn't know what we're talking about. doesn't matter what the conversation is. he does not understand. he understands music. i think with glen, music is last thing to go. it's the most deeply embedded thing in his memory, in his soul and spirit. >> i like it. >> to me, glen is returning. just kind of something in his spirit and in the twinkle of his eye, in the way he enjoys the music.

just reminds me of the way he really is. you know, the way he was when i met him. ♪ i'm still here -- one. ♪ i'm still here -- >> i think we got it, howard. we're good. >> we got the line we need. that's to learn the chorus. >> all right, guys, you want to play? >> uh-huh. >> okay. same tune? >> yeah. same tune. ♪ i'm still here but yet i'm gone ♪ ♪ i don't play guitar or sing my song ♪

♪ they never defined who i am the man that loves you till the end ♪ ♪ you're the last person i will love ♪ ♪ you're the last place i will recall ♪ ♪ and best of all i'm not gonna miss you ♪ ♪ not gonna miss you ♪ i'm never gonna hold you like i did or say i love you to the kids ♪

♪ you're never gonna see it in my eyes it's not gonna hurt me when you cry ♪ ♪ i'm never gonna know what you go through ♪ ♪ all the things i say or do all the hurt and all the pain one thing selfishly remains ♪ ♪ i'm not gonna miss you i'm not gonna miss you ♪

♪ >> how is the alzheimer's coming along, glen? >> how is the what is? >> alzheimer's? >> oh, that's fine, yeah. i gave them a left hook. i just -- it's nothing wrong with me. i just can't remember anything. no, i've been a lot better. it don't -- it don't bother me. something you've got to live with. but it's been really wonderful. actually, hasn't it, lonnie? >> yeah. you're doing a great thing by doing this film. >> well, if i did, thank you.

thank you for it. you're -- i'm glad i run into you. or you run into me. i don't know which. [ applause ] ♪ i'm ron peterson, director of the mayo clinic alzheimer's research center in rochester, minnesota. i'd like to thank glen, kim, ashley, shannon, and cal for their courage in sharing their journey through alzheimer's disease with us in this inspiring movie. it's an exciting time to be

involved in research and care for persons with alzheimer's disease. the scientific community is at a threshold of making significant progress toward a cure. we are now able to identify the earliest features of the disease and also determine who might be at risk of alzheimer's disease even before the development of symptoms. research is underway to develop treatments that may alter the progression of the devastating disease and consequently early identification is of paramount importance. as therapies are developed, the sooner we intervene, the more likely we are to be successful at treating and ultimately preventing alzheimer's disease. i'd like to thank you for watching the film and appreciate your support in the quest to conquer alzheimer's disease. i think a person's love is

comprised of memories, and that's exactly what this disease takes away from you. it's hard to come to the realization that someday my dad might look at me, and i will be absolutely nothing to him. >> a lot of times when the movie's over, people ask what can i do, what are we going to do now. as filmmakers, that's what we ask ourselves. and in honor of glen and in the spirit of the film, we've launched the "i'll be me" ool alzheimer's partnership with the goal of restoring the caregiver. one, we'll try to raise money to find a cure, and we're going to also create events like tonight, films and concerts, to raise money for those in need. >> i knew it was alzheimer's, but it's more solidly in my mind now that i have to accept it.

and it's really hard. but i just -- you know, i just have to maintain as long as i can and try to keep him healthy and happy. >> for more informtion on the i'll be me alzheimer's fund, go to ibmaf.org. on behalf of eli lilly and company, welcome to the special presentation of "glen campbell i'll be me." for nearly 140 years, lilly has been dedicated to making life better through our medicine. and for the last quarter century, we have been working to discover treatments for alzheimer's disease. we are making progress, but a breakthrough can't come soon enough. tonight, we're proud to partner with cnn to bring you this powerful film.